Released: March 19, 1990
Songwriter: Martin L. Gore
Producer: Depeche Mode Flood
[Verse 1]
You had something to hide
Should have hidden it, shouldn't you?
Now you're not satisfied
With what you're being put through
[Refrain]
It's just time to pay the price
For not listening to advice
And deciding in your youth
On the policy of truth
[Verse 2]
Things could be so different now
It used to be so civilised
You will always wonder how
It could have been if you'd only lied
[Refrain]
It's too late to change events
It's time to face the consequence
For delivering the proof
In the policy of truth
[Chorus]
Never again is what you swore
The time before
Never again is what you swore
The time before
[Verse 3]
Now you're standing there tongue-tied
You'd better learn your lesson well
Hide what you have to hide
And tell what you have to tell
[Refrain]
You'll see your problems multiplied
If you continually decide
To faithfully pursue
The policy of truth
[Chorus]
Never again is what you swore
The time before
Never again is what you swore
The time before
[Interlude]
[Chorus]
Never again is what you swore
The time before
Never again is what you swore
The time before
Never again is what you swore
The time before
Never again is what you swore
The time before
Never again is what you swore
The time before
Never again is what you swore
The time before
You had something to hide
Should have hidden it, shouldn't you?
Now you're not satisfied
With what you're being put through
[Refrain]
It's just time to pay the price
For not listening to advice
And deciding in your youth
On the policy of truth
[Verse 2]
Things could be so different now
It used to be so civilised
You will always wonder how
It could have been if you'd only lied
[Refrain]
It's too late to change events
It's time to face the consequence
For delivering the proof
In the policy of truth
[Chorus]
Never again is what you swore
The time before
Never again is what you swore
The time before
[Verse 3]
Now you're standing there tongue-tied
You'd better learn your lesson well
Hide what you have to hide
And tell what you have to tell
[Refrain]
You'll see your problems multiplied
If you continually decide
To faithfully pursue
The policy of truth
[Chorus]
Never again is what you swore
The time before
Never again is what you swore
The time before
[Interlude]
[Chorus]
Never again is what you swore
The time before
Never again is what you swore
The time before
Never again is what you swore
The time before
Never again is what you swore
The time before
Never again is what you swore
The time before
Never again is what you swore
The time before
The Singles 86﹥98
- Enjoy the Silence
- Strangelove [Single Version]
- Never Let Me Down Again [Single Version]
- Useless (Remix)
- Condemnation (Paris Mix)
- Enjoy the Silence (The Quad: Final Mix)
- Dangerous (Hazchemix Edit)
- Everything Counts (Live) [Rose Bowl 18/06/88]
- Behind the Wheel (Remix)
- A Question of Time [Video Remix]
- Stripped [Single Version]
- World in My Eyes (Safar mix)
- Rush (Wild Planet mix)
- Personal Jesus [Single Version]
- It’s No Good
- Walking in My Shoes
- Policy of Truth
- World in My Eyes
- A Question of Lust
- I Feel You
- Little 15
- Home
- Only When I Lose Myself
- In Your Room (Zephyr Mix)
- Barrel of a Gun [Single Version]
- Violator (1990)
- Policy of Truth (1990)
- The Singles 86﹥98 (1998)
- Big Shiny 90's Vol. 2 (2003)
- DMBX: Singles 25-30 (2004)
- Enjoy the Silence
- Personal Jesus
- Policy of Truth
- Where’s the Revolution
- Strangelove
- Never Let Me Down Again
- Just Can’t Get Enough
- Wrong
- Everything Counts
- Precious
- People Are People
- Behind the Wheel
- Cover Me
- Blasphemous Rumours
- Going Backwards
- Shake the Disease
- World in My Eyes
- Stripped
- It’s No Good
- Somebody
- I Feel You
- Halo
- Scum
- So Much Love